Historic agreement on EU Migration and Asylum Pact

The Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has welcomed the political Agreement that has been reached overnight between the European Parliament and the European Council on the remaining measures of the Asylum and Migration Pact.

This will fundamentally overhaul the asylum and migration landscape across the European Union. The measures, along with the rest of the Migration Pact previously agreed, will provide a more coherent, effective and balanced system to regulate asylum and migration in Europe. It will regulate how EU Member States deal with people arriving at their borders, the processing of asylum claims, and the identification of those arriving from third countries.

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